The Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa State has received accredition for 12 new programmes by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
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This was made known by the rector of the polytechnic, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yahya, at a meeting of the school's governing council.
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According to Alhaji Sadiq, 13 programmes were submitted to NBTE for accreditation, of which 12 were approved after the quality assurance scrutiny by the board.
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Alhaji Yahya said the accreditation covered four Higher National Diploma (HND) courses and eight National Diploma (ND) programmes comprising science and technology and management.
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He also said the NBTE has given the Mubi polytechnic approval to admit students for the 12 new programmes for the 2013/2014 academic session.